US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 22 for "Integrated circuit driver device, layout, and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,453, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit driver device, layout, and method" was invented by Chia-Hui Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shu-Wei Chung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuei-Feng Yen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-Jung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IC driver includes a cascode arrangement of first-type transistors coupled in series with a cascode arrangement of second-type transistors different from the first-type transistors. Each cascode arrangement includes an active area extending in a first direction, gate structures extending per...